Earlier today, I needed to ship a couple of items I sold on eBay. I didn't have any boxes small enough for the items and I did not have any type of packing material. So I bought some small boxes at the local FedEx store for $2 each. The small bags of peanuts were $5 a bag. I decided the peanuts were too expensive and bought a newspaper for 50 cents to use as the packing material instead.
Tomorrow is trash day and as I was walking home from work I noticed recycle bin's full of old newspapers. I grabbed as many as I could carry without attracting attention. Then I noticed something else in the recycle bins -- boxes! I grabbed a couple of them and quickly realized that this can become my weekly "packing material pickup day". All the shipping materials I need for running my little eBay business are freely available -- sorted and placed on the sidewalk for me every week! I'll recycle the recycled!
You do realize we have shipping materials and boxes?
I know, I know…you’re now going to say that you don’t want the hassle of picking it up in Lowell and transporting it to Cambridge…BLAH BLAH BLAH
I don’t want to deal with the hassle of picking it up in Lowell and transporting it to Cambridge. 🙂
Plus, I’d hate to store shipping materials in my small basement apartment. If I can just pick up a few boxes from the recycle bins whenever I have something to ship, that makes things a lot easier!
Talk to Fled, last I knew he sells packing material on ebay.
I wish my wife would get boxes only when she needs them, at one time we had about 100 clothes boxes. She collected them after everyone opened their Christmas presents. And tissue paper as well. At the old house, my basement storage was full of empty boxes.
Well you’re not alone DJT. When I was growing up, my parents used their home as their warehouse. I remember our hallways always full of boxes, stacked almost to the ceiling.
I’m just so sick of “stuff” that I’ve decided to get rid of as much as I can.
I cleaned out my storage shed, have 2 boxes of junk and an empty metal shelf to throw out. Wife went to a garage sale today and said she bought a bunch of stuff. 🙁